Review: The Classics Theatre Project’s ‘Look Back in Anger’ pits mixed feelings against strong cast
dallasvoice.comFrom left: Braden Socia, Devon Rose, Rhonda Rose and Joey Folsom as the cast of ‘Look Back in Anger’ by The Classics Theatre Project. (Courtesy photo) There is a lot of anger in The Classics Theatre Project production of Look Back in Anger.
The John Osborne play focuses on a 30-something-ish couple Jimmy (TCTP’s artistic director Joey Folsom) and Alison (Devon Rose) in 1950s England.
They live a fairly bleak existence with his friend Cliff (Braden Socia) in a stodgy apartment. The dynamics are muddled with Jimmy as the self-proclaimed intellectual, Alison as his suffering wife and Cliff who seems to have put himself in the middle with clear affection for her and his loyalty to his friend.
The show heads into its closing weekend at the Margo Jones Theater in the Magnolia Lounge at Fair Park. Although an ensemble piece, Folsom leads the cast as Jimmy, the angry young man, a term often associated at the time with a group of working and/or middle-class British playwrights and novelists such as Osborne in postwar England.
